The "dashpot" mechanism of stretch-dependent gating in MscS

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-154

  Akitake, Bradley ^a   Anishkin, Andriy ^a   Sukharev, Sergei ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Inactivation; Mechanosensitive channel; Osmoregulation; Tension; Voltage

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESSURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPHEROPLAST;

NASA DISCIPLINE CELL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; SOFTWARE; SPHEROPLASTS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 13544268703     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200409198     Document Type: Article

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